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(Portside) — Hard to believe it’s been five years since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010. The bloviating, vein-popping right-wing still goes ballistic at mere mention of the word Obamacare.
Still, putting aside their senseless distortions and diatribes, not too many of us have cause for celebration except perhaps the top [...]

(OREGONLIVE) — Sightings of former Gov. John Kitzhaber and fiancee Cylvia Hayes have been few and far between since Kitzhaber resigned last Wednesday and the two departed Salem.
But there was such a sighting one week ago. And it raised quite a stink.
The former governor and Hayes showed up at the Knott Landfill southeast of Bend [...]

By Kevin Murphy OLATHE, Kan. (Reuters) - A Kansas judge on Tuesday ordered a Missouri white supremacist to stand trial on capital murder charges in the shooting deaths of three people outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb last April. Johnson County District Court Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan found probable cause to believe that Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., ...

The funeral for Tom Schweich, Missouri's state Auditor who committed suicide last week amid a whisper campaign about his Jewish heritage, was held on Tuesday. Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, a political mentor of Schweich's, delivered a stirring eulogy for his protege that doubled as a condemnation of political bullying.Read full article >>

At a Missouri GOP gathering last month, party leaders sided in a gubernatorial straw poll with state Auditor Tom Schweich’s opponent and elected a new chairman who Schweich believed was involved in a whisper campaign against him based on religion.